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#6 Silicon Valley to Kathmandu Valley

The TechKraft PodcastJul 13, 2021

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Tech Entrepreneurship & Marketing I Ashish Shrestha I TechKraft Podcast I #27

Tech Entrepreneurship & Marketing I Ashish Shrestha I TechKraft Podcast I #27

Ashish Shrestha is the CEO of HoneyGuide, a company designing software for trekking and travel in Nepal. He is also the Marketing Director of Bhoos Games, a mobile game company whose online card games have been downloaded by millions. He is also the Marketing Advisor for UniPort, a tech company that helps students find colleges in North America.

In this podcast, we explore his expertise on entrepreneurship and marketing for tech companies, game development, brand building, and much more. 

Watch full video at https://youtu.be/NPA200mVJdo

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Guest: Ashish Shrestha

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Dec 01, 202201:14:35
WordPress Product Development & Scaling I Nabin Jaiswal I TechKraft Podcast I #26

WordPress Product Development & Scaling I Nabin Jaiswal I TechKraft Podcast I #26

Nabin Jaiswal is the CPO of Codewing Solutions, a WordPress development company with more than 1,00,000 downloads of their products, themes, and plugins. They have created hundreds of products targeted towards diverse customer groups. Rishi Themes, Delicious Recipes, Blossom Themes, Kraft Plugins, and Rara Themes are some their popular product marketplaces that has reached millions around the world.  In this podcast, we explore his expertise on WordPress product development, scaling, security, maintenance, marketing, competitors, career, community, and much more.

Watch full video at https://youtu.be/JFrxgB2anGY

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Guest: Nabin Jaiswal

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Nov 30, 202257:42
Self-Driving, AI, and Machine Learning I Shreyasha Paudel I TechKraft Podcast I #25

Self-Driving, AI, and Machine Learning I Shreyasha Paudel I TechKraft Podcast I #25

Shreyasha Paudel works in Research and Design of Robotics and AI systems around the world. She has also worked as a Technical Project Lead in Ford Motor Company developing Self-Driving and other autonomous technologies.   She is currently a Research fellow at NAAMII, exploring the potential of AI in Nepal. Amongst her many collaborative efforts in the field of AI with various global institutes and companies, she has worked with Civic Software Foundation, Nepal Flying Labs, Montreal AI Ethics Institute, and various others.   In this podcast, we explore her fascinating insights on Self-Driving, AI, ML, Neural Networks, and much more.

Watch full video at https://youtu.be/yGAejFxnvd0

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Jul 25, 202201:09:35
Front-end Development & UI/UX Design I Shyam Adhikari I TechKraft Podcast I #24

Front-end Development & UI/UX Design I Shyam Adhikari I TechKraft Podcast I #24

Shyam Adhikari is the Design Lead at Web Point Solutions, LLC, an IT service and consulting company headquartered in Covington, Georgia, USA.   In this podcast we explore his expertise in front-end development and UI/UX Design to understand the difference between User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX), how they relate to one another, and the various underlying concepts, skills, and challenges associated with UI/UX Design in Nepal and international markets.

Watch full video at https://youtu.be/zjg_l4_g4dA

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Guest: Shyam Adhikari https://www.linkedin.com/in/shyam-adri/

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Jul 18, 202201:50:09
Big Data & Marketing Intelligence I Prasanna Dhungel I TechKraft Podcast I #23

Big Data & Marketing Intelligence I Prasanna Dhungel I TechKraft Podcast I #23

Prasanna Dhungel is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GrowByData, a US & Nepal-based company that provides marketing intelligence and big data solutions to some of the world’s Top 100 Retailers & Brands. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Clinic One, a leading healthcare clinic in Kathmandu with the mission of driving preventative healthcare in Nepal.   

Episode 23 of the TechKraft Podcast explores his expertise in big data in marketing, the potential of building a data-driven society in Nepal, the value of data training, and much more.

Watch the full video at https://youtu.be/LYoJI3TVPrM

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Guest: Prasanna Dhungel 

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Jun 28, 202201:19:60
Educating the next generation of IT leaders I Pramod Poudel I TechKraft Podcast I #22

Educating the next generation of IT leaders I Pramod Poudel I TechKraft Podcast I #22

Pramod Poudel is the Director of SoftEd Group, a network of technology-driven businesses across multiple industry domains in Nepal. He is also the CEO of Digi Technology, Co-Founder and Campus Cheif of Softwarica College of IT and E-Commerce,  and Co-founder and Academic Director at Sunway Business School, all of which are subsidiary ventures of SoftEd Group. In this episode of the Techkraft podcast, he talks about academic course designs, the value of a degree, employment opportunities for IT students, and more about IT education in Nepal.   

Watch full video at https://youtu.be/rLuYsApyOUw

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Guest: Pramod Poudel 

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Jun 20, 202201:10:34
Scaling Products & Service Businesses I TechKraft Podcast I #21

Scaling Products & Service Businesses I TechKraft Podcast I #21

Roshan Bhattarai is the Co-Founder of Proshore, a Team as a Service (Taas) platform outsourcing remote teams from Nepal to global businesses. He is also the CEO of Keptify, a popular niche SaaS product for e-commerce sites & also the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Digital Product Labs Inc which develops a range of products for global e-commerce platform builder Shopify. Join in on our conversation with Roshan as he shares his expertise in managing teams that provide world-class products and services leveraging the growing tech industry of Nepal.  

Watch the video https://youtu.be/Q27WCH2CV9o

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Guest: Roshan Bhattarai 

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Jun 20, 202201:26:10
#20 Traveling the World as an Agile Coach & Leading Remote Teams on the go I Mizanur Rahman I TechKraft Podcast I

#20 Traveling the World as an Agile Coach & Leading Remote Teams on the go I Mizanur Rahman I TechKraft Podcast I

Mizanur Rahman is an Agile Coach and Software Architect from Bangladesh who has traveled to more than 30 countries sharing the knowledge of Scrum to thousands. In his visit to Nepal as a speaker for Regional Scrum Gathering Nepal 2022, we had a very insightful conversation with him on a wide range of topics from his experience as a globe-trotting digital nomad to simultaneously leading remote agile teams in Bangladesh developing software for USA.

Watch Full Video: https://youtu.be/AvH7nCN0ojQ

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Guest: Mizanur Rahman 

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Jun 03, 202246:27
#19 Data Sciene, Big Data, and Machine Learning in Finland

#19 Data Sciene, Big Data, and Machine Learning in Finland

Rachhek Shrestha is a Data scientist and Full-stack developer at Futurice, a digital engineering company in Helsinki, Finland. At Futurice he is working with big data, machine learning, and integrating systems to industry 4.0. He shares his experience on the high level of engineering Finland is applying and how Futurice is implementing such smart technologies to enhance productivity. He also delves into custom search engines, data privacy, Finnish work culture, and much more.

Watch full video https://youtu.be/tqQN9xi_R9U

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Feb 18, 202201:00:14
#18 Application Performance Management, Scaling Applications and VMWare

#18 Application Performance Management, Scaling Applications and VMWare

Ronak Zala is a performance engineer at VMware, California. At the Silicon Valley tech giant, he has developed various microservice applications from scratch. His Cloud JVM Profiling Service for distributed micro-service architectures is currently being applied at scale for monitoring and analysis at VMware’s vCenter. He shares his fascinating journey as a software developer at VMware and the innovative environment which fostered his growth as a programmer. He also provides valuable experiences and exclusive insights about core engineering concepts including byte code manipulation, APMs, stack overflow, heap analysis, fixing memory leaks, low overhead memory management for optimizing CPU cycles, quantum computing, AHM-64, and much more.

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Jan 10, 202201:18:04
#17 Holiday/ Hacker Season Special: Complete Guide to Organizational Cybersecurity #xmas #newyears

#17 Holiday/ Hacker Season Special: Complete Guide to Organizational Cybersecurity #xmas #newyears

The holiday season is here, with Christmas right around the curb. However, beneath the celebrations lurk cybercriminals targeting businesses that are often under-staffed or hectic during the holidays causing record numbers of data breaches each year.  

To keep the festive spirit merry, we have invited: Santosh Sharma, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Eminence Ways to share his vast insights on how to protect yourself and your business from cyberattacks. He gives a case-by-case overview of global threat presence from social engineering, ransomware, and DDoS attacks to how organizations can secure their data with skilled ethical hackers, logical processes, and much more on everything cybersecurity.   

 

Watch Full Video https://bit.ly/techkraftpodcast-ep-17 


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Dec 24, 202156:10
#16 Bringing Big Tech to Nepal

#16 Bringing Big Tech to Nepal

Karvika Thapa is the Founder and CEO of Kimbu Tech, a business offshoring company which provides software and support services to companies in Israel and USA. She shares her experience of life in the global tech hub of Israel. Her efforts have established confidence between Nepal’s talent market with tech giants in US and Israel. She also talks about meeting competitive expectations in the global marketplace, promoting women in Nepalese tech, role of universities and investors, and much more to bring a thriving technology ecosystem to Nepal.

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Host : Ravi Mandal

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Guest: Karvika Thapa

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Dec 17, 202150:54
#15 The Automation and Human elements of HR
Dec 10, 202101:18:23
#14 Working with Hyperscalers in Global Tech Giants
Dec 03, 202141:52
Nepal: The Best Outsourcing Tech Hub

Nepal: The Best Outsourcing Tech Hub

Jeff Handy is the COO and Co-founder of Seva Development, a Software development and QA Engineering company based in USA and Nepal. He talks about his 5 years of experience on working alongside Nepali developers and engineers as well as the unique case of Seva development as a start-up which began operation from a remote village in Lamjung. He also shares his thoughts on the American view of outsourcing to Nepal and the potential of Nepal to become a leading hub for outsourcing and Innovation. 


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Guest: Jeff Handy 

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Oct 08, 202129:41
#12 Career in Product / Project Management

#12 Career in Product / Project Management

Bishal Vaidya is a Product & Operation Manager at Introcept Nepal. He shares his experience and insights to deliver projects and lead teams in this Podcast . He draws on his experience from Software Engineer to Product Manager to explore how project managers create value in surprising places. His  perspectives on project management, its uses, its challenges, its changes and its future will help up-skill the new comers in the field of Project/Product Manger to be more effective as a leader and project manager.

Full Video: https://bit.ly/3mhWdOC-ep-12

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Guest: Bishal Vaidya   

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Oct 01, 202101:22:26
#10 DevOps and Infrastructure Strategies
Sep 08, 202101:12:23
#9 Envisioning Nepal as a next Tech Events Hub

#9 Envisioning Nepal as a next Tech Events Hub

Amit co-founded Namaste Kathmandu with a vision of organizing various tech events in Nepal. He and his team successfully organized Mobile Monday, Dribble Meetup, Regional Scrum Gathering, ng-Conf, and other community meetups. He shares his experience, struggles about organizing events and journeys to get into this niche.

Full Video: https://bit.ly/tpp-v-ep9

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Guest: Amit Bajracharya  

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Aug 17, 202159:41
#8 Infrastructure Engineering in Nepal

#8 Infrastructure Engineering in Nepal

Prashant is an Infrastructure Engineer with experience of almost a decade in the industry. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and engages in community doing advocacy work. He shares his experience around working in infrastructure, opportunities around it and how to get started in this path.


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Jul 28, 202101:07:55
#7 Core Software Engineering and Career Path
Jul 21, 202145:36
#6 Silicon Valley to Kathmandu Valley

#6 Silicon Valley to Kathmandu Valley

Prashish returned to Nepal after completing his post graduation and working at a startup. He shares his experience of silicon valley as a professional and student and also the shift of mindset he got during his stay in the USA. He returned to Nepal with a vision to build strong engineering teams and products from Nepal.   

He is currently Chief Technology Officer at Innovate Tech, Nepal.  

Full Video: https://bit.ly/ttp-v-ep6

Host : Ravi Mandal  

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Guest: Prashish Rajbhandari  

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Jul 13, 202101:21:39
iOS Development, Apple Ecosystem and WWDC
Jun 21, 202101:05:19
System Design and Architecture

System Design and Architecture

From monolithic application to serverless let's learn about system design and architecture from Shrawan Poudel, Principal Software Engineer at Insight Workshop.
Jun 16, 202101:17:08
Blockchain Development 101
Jun 06, 202140:13
How to become a Salesforce developer?

How to become a Salesforce developer?

In this episode we will discuss about Salesforce as a product, what exactly does a Salesforce developer do, trends followed in big companies and in Silicon Valley and opportunities around it. 

Guest:  Diwas Poudel, Software Engineer at Salesforce. 

May 31, 202156:27
Scaling applications with K8S and becoming a better engineer

Scaling applications with K8S and becoming a better engineer

In this episode, we are joined by Punit Jajodia. He is Co-Founder at Programiz.com. In this episode we will discuss, how he developed the most popular online compiler in the market right now, what were the challenges, security concerns about it and many more. Followed by a discussion on how to become a better engineer in today's competitive market. 



May 21, 202101:05:54